Tremendous Sacrifice

Chapter 8

Today was the day my girls and I react. I don't think they will know what is going to hit them. I meet Ginny and Luna at the entrance of Slytherin's place. I smiled to them. We were an excited today we were going to show our true colors. We walked to the great hall in our usual way, Luna at my right and Ginny on my left with me in the middle.

"Hermione can we talk?" Someone asked from behind us.

We turned around to see Remus standing there. Ginny and Luna looked at me and I nodded. They walked a little ahead and left Remus and myself alone. I looked at him and you could see that he was battling with something.

"What can I do for you Remus?" I asked concerned.

"Well, I just want to let you know that everyone is not like Sirius. That is not the Sirius I know, trust me. I can't explain his actions right now. But please don't judge other on Sirius. James is a great guy and he is just being a loyal friend. I hope one day we can be friends." He told me.

I gave him a smile. I thought it was sweet that he would pull me aside to talk to me. It showed that he was being a caring person.

"Remus that is sweet of you to come and talk to me. I can see that James is a loyal friend and I can understand with having friend that would do anything for me. I will take your words at heart. I would love to be your friend as well. Thanks again for coming and talking to me." I shared with him.

I turned around and walked back to my girls. I smiled to them and nodded. We walked into the great hall and headed over to the Slytherin's table. Everyone was, looking at us. I could see Remus walking in and nodded towards us I nodded back.

"Keep him close. Remus is going to be a close friend. He is not like the others. He will change their minds hopefully. Just Keep an eye on them, all of them." I told Ginny and Luna.

They nodded. We ate in silence and right there was a scream from Gryffindor's table. Everyone looked over and you could see Sirius and James was covered in hair. Everyone burst out into laughter. They looked like two hair monsters. I smiled to myself and out of the corner of my eye I saw Sirius glaring at me. I nudged to Ginny and Luna. They nodded and we got up together. Severus and Lucius caught up to us and Severus asked,

"Was that your guy's work?"

I gave them an evil smirk and said,

"I have no idea what you are talking about. But they do look good with all that hair."

They grinned at me and started to laugh. We walked all the way down the hall before getting stopped by a hairy Sirius. He was standing right in the middle of the hall. James and Remus were not that far behind. I glanced over to my friends and then asked,

"What is that thing in the way? I don't think I can identify this kind of animal. I think I will call it angry bigfoot. I have never seen one out of the books. This is impressive."

"What did you do to James and me? What only us?" Sirius yelled but it came out weird because of the hair covering his mouth.

"How do you know it was me?" I asked.

"Because I know a prank grin anywhere. You had a sly evil grin on your face and I know you did it." Sirius said.

"Well, I will not lie. Since you caught me, it was me and my girls. We thought you and James deserve it. You were horrible to me and I thought it was time you knew how it felt to get pranked." I explained. "But thinking about it now and something Remus said to me. I think James does not deserve this prank because all he is being is a loyal friend to a stupid person. He can't help that."

I waved my hand and then James hair started to disappear. He looked at his body and then looked over to me and Sirius. I smiled to him and then turned back to Sirius,

"You can figure out how to get all that hair off by yourself. But I should not have punished James. I apologize to you James. You can't help that you have a stupid friend that can't see that he is making an enemy out of a possible friend."

"I WOULD NEVER BE FRIENDS WITH FUTURE DEATH EATERS!" He screamed.

Right then I saw that we had a crowd around us and I did not care. I did not like what he said to me. I took a deep breath and step forward in front of him. We were inches away from each other's face. I could feel the hair on his face.

"You will regret those words in the future. You made the biggest mistake of your life right now. I hope that you will realize that before it is too late."

I then turned on my heels and walked with to class with my girls. The crowd parted like the red sea. Ginny gave me a look and I just shook my head. I did not want to talk about it right now. I just wanted to get out of here. We got went to the Room of Requirements. I ran in there and just sat there on the floor. I whispered,

"It's not like what we thought it was going to be. These people are not the people we knew in our time."